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Re: issuse about svn add linux device file

From: marc gonzalez-carnicer <carnicer.lists_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:04:36 +0100

wow!

i guess adding a device to version control is beyond the imagination of
any test suite.

if you want to have a device created after checking out a repo, you may
want to prepare a script using mknod and related tools, and execute it
after check out.

2008/11/28 Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com>:
> On Nov 27, 2008, at 20:45, Sun, ChengHao wrote:
>
>> I am using the subversion version 1.4.2 (r22196) client and version 1.5.2
>> (r32768) on subversion server.
>> I find some issue when I add some Linux device files as below:
>>
>> $ll filesys/dev/ttyE226
>> crw-r----- 1 root root 24, 226 Nov 28 09:32 filesys/dev/ttyE226
>>
>> $sudo svn add filesys/dev/ttyE226 --force --no-ignore
>> svn: Unsupported node kind for path 'filesys/dev/ttyE226'
>>
>> I searched but couldn't find solution about this issue, could you give
>> some direction for it?
>
> Maybe it's just not possible to add a device to a Subversion repository. It
> certainly falls outside the scope of source control, which is what most
> people use Subversion for. You can add files, directories and symlinks. Why
> do you want to add a device?
>
>
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